1965-2011. Seven Problems of Elementary Geometry

Since the mid-1950s, a new generation of artists — particularly Latin Americans — has sought to renew and deepen geometric abstraction, which Kandinski, Mondrian, Malevich, and others had explored during the first half of the 20th century.

The universe is comprehensible to human beings only through mathematical language and its application to geometry. The artists’ aim is to find an identity between artistic laws and those of nature. Abstraction has a goal: “the expression of pure reality,” understood as the suppression of any visible form, whether of objects or of any form of nature.

The absolute contrast with this aim is provided by the three black-and-white photographs located to the left of the entrance to the space. Halfway between these two positions is the abstract composition made of construction materials, placed at the centre of the room.

Color llum n°10 / Horacio Garcia-Rossi
Construcció i concepció / Sato Satoru
Atmosphère chromoplastique N° 992 / Luis Tomasello
Sketch 1 / Claire-Jeanne Jézéquel
Sense títol / Daniel Pommereulle
Pneus à Arles / Peter Knapp
Empremta de pinzell n°50 a intervals de 30cm / Niele Toroni
Vínculo / Rafael Canogar
Stele X / Michael Warren
Visitation, Paris/New Mexico (díptic) /Joel-Peter Witkin